Soap Cupcakes

Looking at these soap cupcakes, you wouldn’t think that they were Plan B. Or more properly Plan H. Vanessa and I THOUGHT we were just going to use some of our “Melt and Whip” soap to pipe some icing on top of the Melt and Pour Cupcake bottoms. Ha! I say to you, HA!

The Melt and Pour cupcake bottoms were easy to make. We heated up the melt and pour soap in the microwave, added colouring and scent to our liking-it smells like Strawberry Quik-and poured it into the moulds. They set, we unmoulded, no big fuss. But the piping plan, well that was another matter.

We tried whipping it more, we tried whipping it less. We tried piping it when it was hotter and colder. We tried more in the piping bag. Nothing we did worked. The soap was either so hot it poured right through the piping bag or it got too solid to pipe after only a second or two. Ugh.

So instead, we decided to go for a poured fondant look with fondant-style soap flowers, as you see. If you have the right tools, making the flowers is simple. We poured a thin layer of soap and used fondant cutters to make the shapes. We then moulded the flat shapes into 3D with Vanessa’s various fondant working tools.

When the flowers were all built, we melted the white Melt and Whip for the tenth (eleventh?) time and instead of trying to pipe it, poured it on. We popped the flowers on the “poured fondant” immediately after it was poured on. Et fini!

Hers will be going to various friends and family and mine are earmarked for our awesome local librarians.

Have you ever used Melt and Pour soap? What did you make? If you’ve succeeded in piping icing with the stuff, please let me know the secret!

Kiwis can get Melt and Pour supplies, colours and scents from Soapcraft.

Thank you I am always looking for new ideas…these look great…I also tried the ‘whipping’ of Melt and Whip..then trying to pipe Melt and Pour….what a disaster..lack of instruction when purchased :-(.
so it is still in the cupboard